- December 13, 2025
The Daytona Beach City Commission has taken the first step to fix the sidewalks in the Mosaic subdivision.
Residents in the LPGA-area Mosaic neighborhood have been dealing with faulty sidewalks for the last two years. In a July Daytona Beach City Commission meeting Assistant City Manager Public Infrastructure Andrew Holmes said the city is responsible for the repairs to some of the sections of sidewalk.
The repairs could cost the city around $1 million.
The City Commission agreed on Oct. 15 to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with ICI Homes – through its subsidiary BII Volusia Holdings, LLC – that divides up the responsibilities for replacing sidewalks in the neighborhood and sets a 120-day timeline for the two parties to sign on with contractors. The MOA was approved in a 6-0 vote.
Because both parties are responsible for fixing the sidewalks, the MOA will outline which party is responsible for which segments of repairs. It will allow the city and ICI Homes to either engage their own contractors or jointly engage one contractor for all the work.
Once the MOA is signed, City Manager Deric Feacher said ICI Homes and city staff will inspect the areas and decide how to move forward with contractors as well as decide on the phasing and timeline for the construction work.
“Once we all agree on that timeline,” he said, “both groups will be providing updates [to residents] throughout the entire construction process until they're all completed.”
Feacher also said that there will be conversations with the contractors, the police department and other construction entities to create a plan for parking for residents to ensure the least amount of hassle for residents.
Mosaic resident Nancy Denza said she had concerns about the MOA, including with what contractors will be engaged. Denza said the previous contractors or subcontractors who originally built the sidewalks were the developer’s company.
Denza also asked that the commission choose experienced city engineers to review and signoff on the plans and work.
“Let's make sure we have qualified staff handling this this time,” she said. “Because it didn't happen the last time.”
At the Oct. 1 meeting, Zone 4 Commissioner Stacy Cantu showed the commission and residents a memo where staff had signed off on inspections and former City Manager Jim Chisholm had then reduced the $342,000 bonds by more than $19,000. In 2022, Feacher greatly reduced the maintenance bonds by $316,000 following the completion of Mosaic subdivision sidewalks, according to another memo.
At the Oct. 15 meeting, Feacher said the city has made some changes in reference to the maintenance bonds to ensure the bonds are not released or lowered throughout the process.
One resident asked about the appeal process if their sidewalk panels were not among those selected for repairs. City Attorney Ben Gross said once the repair work begins, the one-year maintenance bond will include an obligation to replace any sidewalk panels that are moldy or ponding, in addition to any construction defects during that one-year period.
That language includes sidewalk panels whether they were replaced during this agreement or not, he said.
“So during that one-year period, they still need to meet the eyeball test or we can call on the bond to get those replaced,” Gross said. “That’s a quite broad maintenance bond, compared to what we would usually get in subdivision sidewalk construction.”
Despite that, Commissioner Monica Paris asked that the timeframe on the maintenance bond be increased to more than the one-year period.
“I’d like to have that solidified before any of the work is done,” Paris said.
